Nestsanet
Nestsanet, whose name means freedom, was one of several women baptized together one day in a community in the west part of the country. Having been brought up in a religious environment very oppressive to women, she discovered Jesus as He revealed to her through a dream. With faith in Christ she has been delivered from demonic bondage that had plagued her for years. “Now I have experienced what my real name means,” she said. “Jesus has delivered me and I am free! I have a joy that no one else could give me.” Natsanet desires to share the good news of freedom with all her family.
Tukuwan
Tukuwan serves in a region nearly 50 km away from the nearest city. Daily, Tukuwan walks 10 to 12 km each day to share the Gospel in an unreached community.
Tukuwan met Amadi, whose family problems mounted. Amadi fell into severe depression. His family feared for his life and tried everything, including the village medicine man who practiced tribal spiritualism. Nothing worked. For four months, Amadi actually ran naked in the streets. He now says, “I was totally out of my mind.” Amadi and his family didn’t want to hear about religion. “Our community hated Christians like Tukuwan,” says Amadi.
But Tukuwan began to pray for Amadi.
Amadi’s finally brother told Tukuwan, “If my brother gets healed, then our family will all follow your Jesus.”
Tukuwan and his team began to pray even more fervently for Amadi. Fourteen days later, Amadi was healed.
He says, “Praise God! I was finally delivered and fully restored to a normal life. When my family and the community saw the transformation in me—what God had done—twelve of them immediately became followers of Jesus.”
And, in a place where following Jesus means risking your life, that’s no small change.
But Amadi says, “I just can’t help it – I am sharing about Jesus with everyone.”
And it’s all because Tukuwan was faithful, and God used him to rescue Amadi.